Two Questions.?

Question

#1. Good Mother's Day present?
#2. Can someone explain Latin Ablative case to me???

Answer 1

#1 - Send her a bunch of flowers.
#2 - The usage of the Latin Ablative case is complicated by the fact that the ablative has taken over the function of several cases either lost or almost discontinued in classic Latin -( the associative, the instrumental and the locative). Ablative usage is accordingly best thought of in the following:

a)Separation (lack something, be released from something -- with or without a preposition)
b)Motion from (travelling from town or from home -- with prepositions like a, de, ex, but none before city names or a few common nouns )
c)Cause (died from illness -- no preposition)
d)Agent (with the preposition a/ab; something is done by someone).
e)Comparison (this child is older than that one -- no preposition)
f)Accompaniment (take a walk with a friend -- with the preposition "cu.m")
g)Manner (with or without the preposition "c.um"; fought with great courage)
h)Description (soldier with the wounded hand -- no preposition)
i) Ablative absolute (with the enemy approaching the city, or, with the citizens having been summoned -- no preposition)
l) Means (opened the door with/by means of a key)
m) Degree of difference (older by much)
n) Price (buy something for/with/by means of a dollar)
o) Route (walking along/via this road)
p) Place where (in or on something, usually with a preposition, especially in)
q) Time when (this was done at or on or within some unit of time -- no preposition)
r) Respect or "specification" (the soldier wounded in the hand -- no preposition)